Facts About Hastings

There’s a lot to know about Hastings College and everything available to you as a student here. The facts below give you some insider knowledge and may help direct you toward what you’d like to know more about as you explore Hastings.

Our faculty love what they do and are committed to your education: 74% of full-time faculty hired since 2000 still teach at Hastings College.

Student Life

Number of sports teams: 23 (basketball, cross country, track and field, golf, soccer, bowling, rodeo, shooting, and tennis for men and women; football, baseball and wrestling for men; and volleyball and softball for women); plus dance and cheer

Hastings participates in the Great Plains Athletic Conference (GPAC) and the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA).

Of our 2014 graduates, six months after graduation, 98% were continuing their education or were employed.

You’ll find graduates from the Class of 2013 at Prudential, Countryman Associates, the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, Children's Hospital (Omaha), John Deere, Mary Lanning Healthcare, the Grand Island Independent, Ameritas, American English Center (Ukraine) and public schools across the country.

Some Class of 2013 graduates continued their education at schools such as University of Nebraska Medical Center, University College (Cork, Ireland), University of Wyoming, Creighton University, John Hopkins School of Public Health, Southern College of Optometry, University of Kansas and Logan University.

We do many things really well at Hastings College, among them helping our students grow their talents through deliberate mentoring and service to the community. To see our faculty, staff and students recognized for their efforts to make Hastings College a great place to get an education and a great community to belong to as a graduate is outstanding."

Data show that 97% of recent graduates are working or continuing their education. That success is due in part because of what all of our students accomplish on campus every day. Read the latest student success stories.